Tancredia elongata Lundgren 1895 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae

Full reference: B. Lundgren. 1895. Jurafossil fran Kap Stewart i Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland 7:191-214

Belongs to Tancredia according to B. Lundgren 1895

Sister taxa: Tancredia (Corburella), Tancredia (Isotancredia), Tancredia (Palaeomya), Tancredia (Paratancredia), Tancredia (Tancredia), Tancredia africana, Tancredia allani, Tancredia americana, Tancredia beneckei, Tancredia donaciformis, Tancredia knowltoni, Tancredia kurupana, Tancredia plana, Tancredia slavichi, Tancredia stelcki

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cape Stewart (black limestone), which is in a Pliensbachian carbonate limestone in the Cape Stewart Beds Formation of Greenland

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Tancredia elongata in the database

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